Why Brahms s Requiem is called the German Requiem

Shouldn't Ein Deutsches Requiem be translated as a German Requiem?

It used to be mostly Latin.

Compared with the requiem works of his predecessors, Brahms's "Requiem for Germany" has created a new artistic conception and is more humane in terms of content and **. This work is Brahms's greatest vocal work, marking the pinnacle of his creation and earning him a great reputation throughout Europe. The German Requiem is a perfect combination of chorus, solo and orchestral music, inspired by Handel's polyphonic tradition.

Johannes Brahms, German composer. He was born on May 7, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany, to a family of professional musicians. He lived in poverty in his childhood, his father was a double bass, he studied piano with his father at the age of 7, performed in a waterside bar at the age of 10, held a solo concert at the age of 15, began to compose, and wrote many salon works at this time, including a variety of dance music, marches and orchestral arrangements.

At the age of twenty, he played Beethoven's concerto on the piano with a semiwoofer and raised each note on the spot, and the transposition experiment aroused the interest of the 21-year-old chief musician of the Hanova Orchestra, Joachim, and the two became friends, and Brahms wrote the only violin concerto of his life for Joachim, for whom Joachim lamented that Brahms's talent was "as pure as a jewel and as soft as snow". On the recommendation of Joachim, Brahms defected to Liszt in Weimar, but Brahms was disgusted by Liszt's fancy style. Later, with a letter of recommendation, he approached the Schumann couple in Düsseldorf and received appreciation and support.

was propelled into the music scene. In 1862 he went to Vienna and began to write symphonies after thorough preparation, completing Symphony No. 1 in C minor in 1876, Symphony No. 2 in D major in 1877, Symphony No. 3 in F major in 1883, and Symphony No. 4 in E minor in 1885. In addition to the four monumental symphonies, there are many non-symphonic works, all of which have a strong Brahmste quality.

In the 60s of the 19th century, he settled in Vienna and made this ** center of Europe at that time his second home. He died in Vienna on 3 April 1897, and all ships in the Port of Hamburg honked their horns and flags were flown at half-mast.